That might not be the yellow I’m looking for then. I went up Florida and had an amazing yellow, been searching for it since
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Were you looking for “lilikoi” or p. edulis flavicrapa? Its typically sold as just “yellow” passionfruit, as opposed to the “purple” which is Purple Possum usually. They are the same species, just different subspecies which is based off the fruit color I believe (hence “yellow” and “purple”)
Note that lilikoi I think is just Passionfruit in a different language. But, at least here in Florida, if it says “lilikoi” its the yellow variety.
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Probably, I think flavicarpa is correct but not sure.
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Lilikoi is the name for passion fruit in Hawaii. It is typically yellow there. The variety is as stated above, passiflora edulis var flavicarpa.
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Tetraploids set their second crop of the year and are beginning to mature enough to start falling off the vine. After falling I give them another week or two indoors and they’re nicely colored and sweet.
Loads of fruit this year.
One vine has a few with some blush on them.
Marjorie Sherwin set just a few, somewhat lobed fruit.
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One my Passion fruit plants doing this number. Not sure if it’s mccain, red rover, or purple possum but my and red rover never did this in the past. Lost my tags lol. My most vigorous one even in the cold.
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If I trim back my passionfruit is that going to effect flowering for next year? It should lose its leaves some time in December/January, is that the best time to trim it back? I don’t really want to promote growth, just want to size it down some for the start of the season.
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I don’t know for sure, but I think it’s best to cut them during growing season. Also just had a fruit off my tetraploid seedling and it was much better than my pinkpop, similar passionfruit flavor but without the off putting musky aftertaste
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No, they only fruit on new growth from what I’ve seen.
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I guess its time for a haircut then. Its growing close to an inch a day still it feels like. Probably won’t stop growing until we have a major cold front.
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I like to cut mine about a foot away from the base for the springtime. Probably what I’m going to do again this year. I decided to try a new trellis system and don’t really like it. Going to go back to my critter fence system and stick them in 25 gallons this year. They’ve been in 15 gallons from a 4 inch pot earlier this year for me. My hybrid from seed i made was about 25 ft before i cut it down to one. It’s back to about 25 ft again in February for my area. All of mine are cuttings and not grafted though so if you’d have grafted ones, be mindful of how close you cut
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Interesting.
I have a sort of Passionfruit fence in the front of the house near the separating wall but the wires and posts holding it up sort of collapsed this year so I’m going to build a new wooden fence and then try to weave the vines through it. They are quite laden with crop right now so I’m wondering when to do my trimming work.
Having said that, i was wondering if anyone has ideas on how to tell if a Passionfruit is good to remove from the vine to try to ripen indoors? Of course if it falls, then it is good to try. But is there a way to check the ones on the vine for any indicators? I feel like rats get most of the ones that fall down 
so i want to figure out a diff approach.
I have:
Red Rover
Possum Purple
Frederick
And
Sweet Calabash
Thank you!
They don’t ripen indoors but if they’re of color and they fall off the vine when you touch it or give it a slight pull, i find those to be peak ripeness. The ones that have fallen seem to be overripe in my opinion.
Personally, i never allow any of mine to fall on the ground. Too many issues and they taste sipid at that point.
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Totally makes sense. Thank you!
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Looks like I got at least one fruit to set for my 5 year old from seed, first time flowering, Passiflora ligularis, aka Sweet Grandilla.
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Counter ripened hybrid passion fruit. I’ve had a few rot before ripening unfortunately, usually from a defect or spot on the skin where I assume there was damage. This one however ripened up great.
Good flavor, decent sweetness and a little tartness left.
As best I can tell, this was one of the few from Marjorie Sherwin. The shape wasn’t perfectly round, the pith was firm, and the seeds didn’t have the speckles that my other ones usually have. The flavor was a bit different too, but not in a way I can describe. I’ll be growing these out for sure.
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So…
I’ve tried rooting in water. Failed.
Rooting in pot that i didn’t care about. Succeeded
Anyone have a trick for rooting them successfully?
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What species? I rooted Purple possum edulis in water from green cuttings, but only had 1 with real good roots out of probably 8 or 9. If I constantly changed the water/not let the caterpillars have their way, I would have better success. Unlike sweet potatos, my passionfruits sent their roots directly from the open cut, as opposed to around the node. So cut just below a growth node imo. And it took a couple months to get good roots.
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HOW 
I’ll try that though…
I had over 100 cuttings in water in over 2 months 
Also by any chance… does anyone here have Panama yellow or flavicarpa that can spare some cuttings?
I accidentally let my Panama red fry out in the greenhouse… no idea how… it never did well to begin with 
i need to move it closer to the heater though…
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I wish everything rooted as easily as figs
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